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On the solution of the harmonic-divgrad PDEs system

Mathematical Physics 2025-01-14 v1 High Energy Physics - Theory Analysis of PDEs math.MP

Abstract

We study a particular system of partial differential equations in which the harmonic, the divergence and the gradient operators of the unknown functions appear (harmonic-divgrad system). Using the Killing Hopf theorem and leveraging the properties of Riemannian manifolds with constant sectional curvature we establish the conditions under which these equations admit only the trivial solutions proving their trivialization on positive curvature space forms. The analysis of this particular system is motivated by its occurrence in the study of asymptotic symmetries in pp-form gauge theories and in mixed symmetry tensor gauge theories.

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@article{arxiv.2501.07506,
  title  = {On the solution of the harmonic-divgrad PDEs system},
  author = {Federico Manzoni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.07506},
  year   = {2025}
}